This second volume, of a new five-volume edition of Poe's works based on the Raven edition of 1903, contains many of Poe's most celebrated chilling tales. The complete contents is: The Purloined Letter, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade, A Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and his Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, Silence: a Fable, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Imp of the Perverse, The Island of the Fay, The Assignation, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, The Domain of Arnheim, Landor's Cottage, William Wilson, The Tell-Tale Heart, Berenice and Eleonora.